BONN/FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo today announced that they have donated a
flight to support the European Commission in delivering relief goods to
Japan. The flight to Tokyo, which was performed by the companies' joint
air cargo subsidiary AeroLogic, departed Frankfurt airport on Monday and
arrived in Tokyo this morning. DHL is currently delivering the goods
directly to the final destinations.

The aircraft carried 30 tons of goods from Hungary, Slovakia and Sweden,
including canned food, tents, blankets, sleeping bags, clothes, gloves
and rubber boots. The supplies are desperately needed in the affected
prefectures in Japan and are highly welcome by the Japanese authorities.

In a joint statement Ken Allen, CEO DHL Express, and Karl Ulrich
Garnadt, CEO Lufthansa Cargo, said: "We are happy to be able to help the
EU Commission in supporting the people of Japan. By adjusting our flight
schedules and with the strongest support of everyone involved we gladly
took the opportunity to deliver fast help directly to one of the areas
that were impacted most by the tsunami."

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2010 financial year, the airline transported around 1.8 million tonnes
of freight and mail and clocked up 8.9 billion tonne-kilometres. The
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some 330 destinations in more than 100 countries with its own fleet of
freighters, the belly capacities of passenger aircraft operated by
Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, and an extensive road feeder service
network. The bulk of the freight transported by Lufthansa Cargo is
trans-shipped through Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly
owned Lufthansa subsidiary. Revenues in 2010 totalled around 2.8 billion
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